Therapy for Professional Givers in Bellingham, Washington

(who want to help others without burning out)

A white mug with a motivational quote inside, surrounded by pink and purple flowers, on a wooden surface.

You are competent, insightful, empathetic, and often the one others turn to for support. You hold complexity well. You think deeply, and feel even more. You care deeply about doing good work and helping others.

And still — you are human.

I specialize in working with high-achieving therapists and helping professionals who want a therapeutic space that matches the level at which they practice. Our work will be experiential, emotionally rich, evidence-based, culturally attuned, and grounded in attachment.

Therapists are often the last people to extend to themselves the compassion they so readily offer others. When you're exhausted, depleted, or questioning whether you can keep doing this work, it can be easy to turn that inward — to wonder if you're not resilient enough, not boundaried enough, not cut out for this.

But compassion fatigue and moral injury are not personal failings. They are the natural consequence of caring deeply within systems that are often under-resourced, ethically fraught, and structurally designed to take more than they give. In our work together, we will hold both the inner patterns and histories you bring, and the very real external forces shaping your experience.

Together, we can:

  • Address burnout, over-functioning, and the pressure to always “get it right”

  • Work through imposter syndrome at its emotional roots — not just intellectually

  • Explore professional identity development and blocks to your clinical confidence

  • Deepen your capacity to tolerate vulnerability, uncertainty, and relational risk

  • Situate your challenges within the larger systems impacting you and your clients -not mistaking systemic harm for personal inadequacy

  • Integrate personal healing with clinical growth

  • Explore family of origin patterns related to caregiving and over-responsibility: how this developed, what it has given you, and where it gets in the way

Because I am an experienced therapist and supervisor, with a PhD and advanced training in experiential and somatic work, I offer a space where you can trust that you will be held fully as a client — not as a therapist or caretaker. Here, you do not have to manage the room or anyone else’s feelings. You get to relax and be supported.

I bring a socio-cultural and affirming lens to my practice, recognizing that identity, culture, community, and lived experience are not separate from our inner lives — they shape who we are, how we move through the world, and what healing can look like for each person. Learn more about my approach to therapy here.

Whether in individual or couples therapy, this is a space where you do not have to be the expert.
You do not have to perform.
You can let go and be held.

You deserve a space for yourself!